New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc., one of the largest sports footwear manufacturers in the world, recently announced it has selected a co-developer for the new headquarters building that is currently under construction between the Allston/Brighton interchange.

Industrial assets are particularly ripe for this type of transaction, having accounted for more than half of deal volume in the first half of 2018, up from 35 percent in 2017, noted Krupa Shah, senior vice president of JLL's capital markets group.